About first impressions of OpenAI's GPT-5 release.
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About first impressions of OpenAI's GPT-5 release.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I am thoroughly unimpressed by GPT-5. It still can't compose iambic trimeters in ancient Greek with a proper penthemimeral cæsura, and it insists on providing totally incorrect scansion of the flawed lines it does compose. I corrected its metrical sins twice, which sent it into "thinking" mode until it finally returned a "Reasoning failed" error.
There is no intelligence here: it's still just giving plausible output. That's why it can't metrically scan its own lines or put a cæsura in the right place.